The Reading Room
On Democracy in America
It took a young French aristocrat to see American civic life more clearly than the Americans did.
On Democracy in America
It took a young French aristocrat to see American civic life more clearly than the Americans did.
On The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is the most eloquent contradiction in the American founding, and his collected writings are where the contradiction lives in full.
On The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is the most eloquent contradiction in the American founding, and his collected writings are where the contradiction lives in full.
On The Sedition Act Materials
Seven years after the First Amendment promised that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, Congress made exactly such a law, and prosecuted...
On The Sedition Act Materials
Seven years after the First Amendment promised that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, Congress made exactly such a law, and prosecuted...
Reading On Liberty
On Liberty is the clearest defense ever written of the freedom to be wrong.
Reading On Liberty
On Liberty is the clearest defense ever written of the freedom to be wrong.
On Considerations on Representative Government
If On Liberty is Mill on the freedom of the individual, Considerations on Representative Government is Mill on the machinery of self-rule, how a free people actually governs itself through...
On Considerations on Representative Government
If On Liberty is Mill on the freedom of the individual, Considerations on Representative Government is Mill on the machinery of self-rule, how a free people actually governs itself through...
On Civil Disobedience
A single night in jail over an unpaid tax became the seed of the most influential American essay on conscience ever written.
On Civil Disobedience
A single night in jail over an unpaid tax became the seed of the most influential American essay on conscience ever written.